FPGA-Based Active Cancellation of the EMI of a Boost Power Factor Correction (PFC) by Injecting Modulated Sine Waves

Boost power factor corrections tend to be considerable sources of electromagnetic disturbances. To ensure the proper functionality of susceptible systems in the vicinity, the emissions must be reduced. Passive filters, as a conventional solution to reduce conducted emissions, usually suffer from their high volume, weight and costs. Active filters can help to mitigate this problem, but the known solutions are systematically limited by inherent time constants and signal propagation delays since they derive the cancellation signal directly from a measured quantity by a feedforward and/or feedback approach. To resolve this issue, each harmonic can be individually suppressed by an artificially synthesized sine wave that is synchronized to the disturbances. By adjusting the amplitudes and phases of the suppressing sine waves, bothersome time constants and delay times can be compensated. In this work, it is shown that the switching harmonics of a power factor correction can be interpreted as modulated sine waves. By modulating the suppressing sine waves simultaneously, a very high performance can be achieved for the active cancellation system. The hardware and the algorithm are described, optimum parameters for the algorithm are identified and an FPGA implementation is applied to a real PFC.